Many people remember Mariel Hemingway best from her portrayal of the sweet teenager Tracy in Woody Allen's Manhattan, where she delivered film's uplifting closing line, a reminder, "You have to have a little faith in people".
It turns out at least one part of publishing has a diverse slate of authors: The books most likely to be pulled from school and library shelves.
On a recent Sunday afternoon, 50 francophiles crowded into the salon area of Owspace bookstore to listen to two authors discuss their latest book, Cinema Francais.
The author of Grey Stories, The Bird Saw Me and A Perfect Crime (available in English) tells China Daily his experience as the writer-in-residence at the Owspace bookstore.
A handwritten notebook by British World War II code-breaking genius Alan Turing, who was the subject of the 2014 Oscar-winning film The Imitation Game, brought more than $1 million at auction on Monday.
April 20's visa change will likely buttress the Republic of Korea's current position as outbound Chinese tourists' top destination.
Chinese outbound tourism to Canada surged nearly 29 percent to 450,000 visitors last year.
Many archeological discoveries in China last year have shed a new light on the history of the Silk Road and have the potential to trigger the rewriting of textbooks.
Top 10 list of new archeological discoveries in China in 2014 (chronological order):
For thousands of years, ceramic art has been displayed on shelves as pots and vases. But in the post-industrial era, the way it is being presented has changed.
Lin Shuzhong (1926-2014), a professor with Nanjing University of the Arts, visited many museums in the United States in 1985. He was on a yearlong assignment to teach the history of Chinese painting at a university. He came across collections of rare and ancient Chinese paintings and antiquities at US, and later, other foreign museums. He kept a record of what he saw.
Julien Seth Malland calls himself a street artist, but since April 8 he has been painting the wall of a pigsty in suburban Shanghai's Wuxing village.
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